Dynamic Law Libraries: Access, Development and Transformation in Africa and the United States
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JONES, Yolanda and ILAKO, Caroline (2015) Dynamic Law Libraries: Access, Development and Transformation in Africa and the United States. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2015 - Cape Town, South Africa in Session 114 - Library and Research Services for Parliaments Law Libraries and Africa.
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Dynamic Law Libraries: Access, Development and Transformation in Africa and the United States
Just as access to information is deemed as a fundamental human right, access to legal information is also a fundamental information access issue. Attorneys, law students and the general public require legal information for decision making. In both Africa and the United States, law libraries are at the forefront of processing, disseminating and transmitting legal information. However; access to this information is limited by factors such as inadequate physical books, physical access issues, legal literacy issues (information behaviour), and infrastructure. This paper will explore the intersection between information behaviour and access to justice. It will discuss US and Ugandan perspectives on legal information as a human right, the legal information needs of attorneys, and strategies and approaches that law libraries in US and Uganda have used to facilitate access to legal information. It will also highlight the Access to Justice Movement and some of the challenges of accessing legal information in both countries.Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) | |||||||||
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Conference details: | IFLA WLIC 2015 - Cape Town, South AfricaSession 114 - Access to legal information and legislative data in Africa: the role of libraries and librarians- African Legal information and legislative data and- Building a Reading Culture in Africa - Library and Research Services for Parliaments Law Libraries and Africa |
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Divisions: | Division 1 Library Types > Law Libraries Section Division 1 Library Types > Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section Division 5 Regions > Africa Section |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Legal information, Access to Justice | |||||||||
Date Deposited: | 16 Jun 2015 19:26 | |||||||||
Last Modified: | 14 Aug 2017 08:55 | |||||||||
URI: | https://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/1120 |
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